Section “Yandex”, Roskomnadzor will reduce the collection of personal data: the main thing March 6

Finance

• Rosfinmonitoring proposed a threshold of 100 thousand rubles for transfers from people without opening an account. Last summer, the ministry offered an amount of 60,000 rubles.

Business

• Management and consultants at Dutch company Yandex NV are discussing various options for Yandex’s reorganization, which involves spinning off the Russian business into a separate legal entity and possibly attracting investors to its capital, RBC has learned.
• Russian investment firm AFK Sistema has refused to buy a stake in Melon Fashion Group (MFG; Zarina, befree, Love Republic and Sela brands) from Sweden’s Eastnine and East Capital Holding AB. The reason is that the terms of the transaction cannot be fulfilled on the specified date.
• MTS is negotiating to buy ticketing platform TicketsCloud from its founder Yegor Yegerev, Kommersant has learned. Experts note that since the beginning of 2023, event ticket sales have been actively growing again, which may push other large companies to enter into transactions.
• The Abrau-Durso group of companies belonging to the family of Ombudsman Boris Titov has sold the French winery Chateau d’Avize, which it has owned since 2010. The company decided to abandon the asset due to difficulties in working in the region , RBC reported.

Technologies

• Roskomnadzor plans to unify the rules for the collection of personal data by online services and conclude user agreements with them.